So You Want to Be a Detective
Short Film
1948
11m
Passed
English
Comedy, Crime
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Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
So You Want to Be a Detective
Passed
Short Film
1948
11m
English
Comedy, Crime
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
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6.7
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Cast
Joe McDoakes (a.k.a. Phillip Snarlo...
Narrator (voice)
Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)
Barroom Thug (uncredited)
Directed By: Richard L. Bare
Written By: David Swift (Story), Richard L. Bare
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talisencrw
6 years ago
This short film, an extra from my blu of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' is one of the better Richard Bare-directed 'Joe McDoakes' comedic shorts. Like Leonard Maltin states in his introduction to the 1948 'Warner Night at the Movies' that Warner Bros. attempts to recreate with this (as well as t More
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